📢 Call for Participation: Wikitongues Pre-conference at Wikimania 2025

Title: Building Inclusive Communities Through Language
Date: TBD, Wikimania 2025 – Nairobi, Kenya
Format: One-day preconference

🌍 About the Event

Languages are more than tools of communication; they are vessels of culture, identity, and knowledge. At Wikitongues, we believe building inclusive communities begins with embracing linguistic diversity in all its forms.

Join us for a one-day preconference at Wikimania 2025 focused on exploring how language documentation, multilingual tools, and community storytelling can foster inclusion within the Wikimedia movement and beyond.

🎯 We Invite You to Submit Proposals For:

• Lightning Talks (8–10 minutes): Share a project, story, or tool that advances linguistic inclusion.
  
• Workshops (45–60 minutes): Facilitate skill-sharing or collaborative learning on language documentation, multilingual editing, oral history, etc.
  
• Community Showcases: Display posters, tools, or media projects during our exhibit-style networking session.
  

🔍 Suggested Topics

• Indigenous and endangered language initiatives
  
• Oral history, storytelling, and documentation ethics
  
• Building multilingual Wikimedia projects
  
• Language justice in free knowledge
  
• Tools like Lingua Libre, Wikidata Lexemes, Wiktionary
  
• Bridging language and accessibility gaps
  

🧾 Submission Guidelines

Please include:

• Title of your session
  
• Abstract (max 100 words)
  
• Format (Talk / Workshop / Showcase)
  
• Language(s) used
  
• Presenter bio
  
• Any technical needs
  

🗓️ Deadline to Submit: [July 5, 2025]
📬 Submit via: SUBMIT A PROPOSAL HERE

Notifications of acceptance will go out by July 15, 2025.

📩 Contact

Questions? Reach out to tochiprecious2@gmail.com or message us.

Let’s build a more inclusive future through language together..